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December 24, 2004 at 12:03 pm #1036094
Like most areas of the UK, there are loads of people with outdoor light displays on their houses.
some of them are actually OK (I have to admit I quite liked one I saw where Santa and his helpers were riding bicycles so the reindeer had only the toys to cart along ๐ “)
I couldn’t help but think though – “just how much extra energy resources is all this stuff using?” (Ok, we ravers do have loads of power-hungry stuff as well but few people switch their rigs on every winter night….) You’ve already got loads more appliances turned on for longer because of winter. Much of the power supply infrastructure of Britain is about 30-50 years old as well!
A week ago all the lights in my house dimmed several times; people watching TV downstairs complained the set was playing up and the freeview box reset.
The next day at work many people were discussing the power disturbances – these were city-wide and although most people only had brown-outs (where the mains drops below 200V) in one particular sector a large 33,000v circuit breaker tripped and the power went out for many buildings, including the Royal Mail sorting office!
All the conveyors stopped, the computers had to be reset and they lost hours of processing time.
Although I hope that most people did get their Xmas post on time.. (prolly by making the posties work more unscheduled overtime ๐ ) it does make you think about the consequences of unbridled consumption…
March 31, 2010 at 8:28 pm #1063391how about this old one gl? =D
March 31, 2010 at 8:31 pm #1063392@General Lighting 7327 wrote:
(I have to admit I quite liked one I saw where Santa and his helpers were riding bicycles so the reindeer had only the toys to cart along ๐ “)
trust you GL :laugh_at::laugh_at::love:
March 31, 2010 at 8:45 pm #1063390I saw the santa with bikes in Suffolk as well, three years later!
funilly enough I was thinking about those power cuts a few days ago as the one I remember I was riding back from work when literally the whole street went into darkness, street lights, houses, the lot, was well spooky.
Reading lost power again last winter as my sister (who still lives in the house I used to live in at the time) called me asking where the meter and service fuse was but she realised then the entire street was out!
The two substations feeding the area are really ancient, from the 1950s…
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